Around the corner and outside the Express News newsstand and café on Main Street, owner Shezy Khan arranged newspapers, one of which announced the Dodgers' proposed sale.

"Hopefully things are going to get a lot brighter," said Khan, looking at the headline.

"It was becoming more of a joke," he said. "We were paying for this guy's lavish lifestyle."

A block away, on First Street, Luis Olazabal, 35, was in the middle of his three-mile daily walk to work from East Los Angeles, where he’d grown up.

"I'm on the happy side," said Olazabal, dressed in a blue Dodger hoodie. "I don't think [McCourt] really cares for the Dodgers. I love the Dodgers. He looks at it as a business and I’m looking at it as Dodgers are my son. For me, it’s personal."

Yet not everyone was gripped by enthusiasm for the news.

"I don’t really have an opinion," said Abner Cifuentes, a Guatemalan immigrant who was spraying down the driveway to a high-rise parking lot on Los Angeles Street. "I’m a soccer fan."